Reward For Arsonist

DIGEST

July 21, 1994|Staff Reports

MIAMI SPRINGS — A $5,000 reward is being offered for the arrest and conviction of the arsonist who set fire to a historic Miami Springs mansion 10 days ago.

The Glenn Curtiss mansion, an adobe-like home in the city just north of Miami International Airport, was gutted in a July 11 fire. The mansion, once the home of Curtiss, an aviation pioneer and a founding father of Miami Springs, is one if the city's best known landmarks. Damage to the mansion was estimated at $200,000. No arrests have been made.

Built in the 1920s, the mansion, now owned by Manor Care, a Silver Spring, Md., health care and lodging company, was to be donated and turned into an aviation museum. Manor Care is offering the reward.

Besides the $5,000 reward, Crimestoppers of Dade County is also offering an additional $1,000. Anyone with information about the fire is asked to call 471-8477 in Miami.